DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het aantal faillissementen is in januari op jaarbasis opnieuw afgenomen, meldt het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS). In totaal gingen vorige maand 279 bedrijven failliet. Dat zijn 39 faillissementen minder dan in dezelfde maand een jaar eerder, een daling van 12 procent. Ten opzichte van december steeg het aantal faillissementen met 6 procent.

De faillissementsgraad, het aantal faillissementen per 100.000 bedrijven, kwam in januari uit op 7,5. Een jaar eerder werden er per 100.000 bedrijven 8,7 failliet verklaard. De faillissementsgraad geeft volgens het CBS een zuiverder beeld van de ontwikkeling van het aantal faillissementen. Ook bedrijfstakken kunnen hiermee beter met elkaar vergeleken worden. Het aantal bedrijven kan namelijk fluctueren door de tijd heen en sterk verschillen tussen bedrijfstakken.

In de horeca werden in januari relatief gezien de meeste faillissementen uitgesproken. Per 100.000 bedrijven in de horeca gingen er 30,5 failliet, een jaar eerder waren dat er 35,2.

HOEVELAKEN (ANP) - Meld Misdaad Anoniem heeft in 2025 een recordaantal anonieme tips binnengekregen. Het meldpunt stuurde 32.007 meldingen door naar de politie, gemeenten en opsporingsdiensten. Dat is een stijging van 32 procent ten opzichte van een jaar eerder.

Volgens het meldpunt komt dit door de landelijke campagne 'Houd misdaad uit je buurt'. Via spots op televisie, radio en internet werden mensen het afgelopen jaar geattendeerd op de signalen van criminaliteit, zodat ze deze leren herkennen en weten wat ze met deze signalen kunnen doen.

Bijna de helft van de meldingen betrof drugscriminaliteit, zoals handel op straat, hennepkwekerijen en de productie van synthetische drugs. Ook waren er bijna 3500 meldingen van geweld.

Wapens

In alle categorieën kwamen meer tips binnen, waarbij het aantal over fraude meer dan verdubbelde van 490 meldingen in 2024 naar 1164 vorig jaar. Het meldpunt ontving ook aanzienlijk meer meldingen over illegale handel in vapes en sigaretten.

Volgens het meldpunt zijn dankzij de tips 3452 verdachten opgespoord en 1140 wapens in beslag genomen.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het dagelijks leven is in januari gemiddeld 2,4 procent duurder geworden dan in dezelfde maand een jaar geleden. Dat meldt het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) op basis van definitieve cijfers, die gelijk zijn aan de eerder gemelde snelle raming. De inflatie nam daarmee flink af ten opzichte van de 2,8 procent in december.

De daling van de inflatie kwam vooral door de prijsontwikkeling van voedingsmiddelen en alcoholvrije dranken. Deze waren in januari 2 procent duurder dan een jaar eerder, in december was dit nog 3,3 procent. Ook de prijsontwikkeling van kleding en schoenen droeg bij aan de daling. In januari waren kleding en schoenen 0,5 procent goedkoper dan in dezelfde maand het jaar daarvoor, in december was er een prijsstijging van 1 procent. De prijsontwikkeling van tandheelkundige diensten had eveneens een drukkend effect op de inflatie.

In vergelijking met december daalden de consumentenprijzen in januari met 0,7 procent.

BVV Barendrecht bestaat donderdag 100 jaar. De Nationale G-Voetbaldag en de vele oefenwedstrijden tegen Feyenoord zorgden voor landelijke bekendheid. Van Louis van Gaal tot Guus Hiddink, vrijwel alle grote Nederlandse namen in de voetballerij bezochten het amateurcomplex wel eens.

In dit liveblog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van donderdag 12 februari.

Aan de Doctor Schaepmansingel in Schiedam is in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag een auto uitgebrand. Er kwamen flinke vlammen uit het voertuig, is te zien op beeld. De politie denkt dat de brand is aangestoken.

Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkers

APRICOT 2026  Starlink can sometimes shift data more quickly than is possible on terrestrial networks, and improves connectivity in remote areas. But the space broadband service also presents new technical and regulatory challenges, according to speakers who took to the stage on Tuesday at the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) in Jakarta, Indonesia.…

Despite high needs, the Merseyside borough has the most youth work ‘black holes’ of any local authority in England

• Youth work ‘black holes’ in half of all council areas in England, study finds

“I feel like I’m failing because I can’t reach everyone,” said Toni Dodd, the centre manager at Karma in the Community, a youth service in Knowsley on the outskirts of Liverpool.

“I’ll go over and get kids hanging outside the shops, bring them in, but it’s who am I not reaching? It just takes one thing and they’re on that track into crime, into drugs. There are kids going into school on ketamine. I do all I can but it’s so hard to keep it open and running, and you can’t meet the demand there is.”

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Shaken and rubbed in a cloth, this simple Italian classic has never tasted better

Nightclubs, mechanics, restaurants, a theatre, a wholesale butcher and an Apostolic church occupy some of the network of caves and tunnels that, over the centuries, were burrowed into Monte Testaccio, an ancient rubbish dump hill in the middle of Rome that’s made entirely of broken amphorae. Some places make a feature of their situation, revealing sections of pots not dissimilar to the cross section of snapped wafer biscuits, while others have smoothed the curves with plaster.

A few use the caves as originally intended – that is, as natural warehouses offering steady low temperatures and good humidity. In short: the ideal temperature for storing certain foods and wine. Most recently, Vincenzo Mancini, whose project DOL distributes artisanal products from small agricultural realities in Lazio, has taken over a deep cave behind door 93, reclaiming it as an urban ageing space for cheese and cured meat. I visited a few months ago with the chefs from Trullo in London, to do a cheese tasting – and to eat an unexpected cacio e pepe.

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It is not just this doomed government but the Labour party itself that is disappearing before our very eyes

When he does go, what will the political death certificate give as the true cause of Keir Starmer’s demise? It won’t be the Peter Mandelson scandal, the policy U-turns or the bleak nights at provincial counting centres. All these are symptoms, not the disease. No, what is turning the guy elected just 19 months ago into an ex-prime minister is the slow realisation among ministers, colleagues and voters of one essential truth about the man: there is less to him than meets the eye.

His promises get shrunk in the wash. A green new deal is jettisoned, an Employment Rights Act has a large watering can poured over it, a bold manifesto pledge to end Britain’s feudal leasehold laws suddenly grows caveats.

Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist

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Opening the Berlin film festival, No Good Men blends romance and rebellion, capturing love, humour and female agency in Kabul on the eve of the Taliban’s return

‘Afghanistan’s first romantic comedy” was not the easiest of sales pitches, director Shahrbanoo Sadat admits. But her long shot of a movie landed her the opening slot at the Berlin film festival starting Thursday, sending her in the red-carpet footsteps of the likes of Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers.

Sadat, 35, wrote, directed and stars in the daring, genre-bending film No Good Men, about a budding love affair in a Kabul newsroom on the eve of the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 and the west’s chaotic withdrawal.

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Leaders to discuss once-taboo policy of favouring European companies, in attempt to regain economic competitiveness

EU leaders are expected to diverge on whether “Buy European” is an answer to Europe’s waning economic fortunes, at a summit on how to secure the continent’s future in a more volatile global economy.

At a moated castle in the east Belgian countryside, the EU’s 27 leaders will gather on Thursday for a brainstorming session on how Europe can regain its economic competitiveness vis-a-vis the US and China, at a time of economic threats and political turbulence.

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System used for civil servants not thorough enough for those with ‘baggage’ of years in politics or business, Peter Ricketts says

Downing Street cannot appoint politicians or business figures to senior diplomatic posts using the same security vetting it uses to check civil servants, a former national security adviser has said.

Peter Ricketts said there had to be more “awkward questions” asked of a person such as Peter Mandelson than the system allows, given “all the baggage” of his three decades in politics and business.

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With many unable to access or afford qualified therapists, AI is filling the mental healthcare vacuum, amid calls for tighter regulation

On a quiet evening in her Abuja hotel, Joy Adeboye, 23, sits on her bed clutching her phone, her mind racing and chest tightening. On her screen is yet another abusive message from her stalker – a man she had met nine months earlier at her church.

He had asked Adeboye out; when she declined, he began sending her intimidating, insulting and blackmailing messages on social media, as well as spreading false information about her online. There were even death threats.

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Exclusive: First mapping of youth centres in decades shows poorer areas in north worst affected by cuts since 2010

• ‘We’re on a cliff edge’: the struggle to keep youth services alive in Knowsley

Almost half of all council areas in England have youth work “black holes” with few or no services despite high levels of deprivation and antisocial behaviour, analysis shows.

The first mapping in decades of youth centres across the country has revealed a nationwide crisis in youth support and significant inequality. Poorer areas in the north of England are shown to have been the worst affected by cuts to youth services since 2010.

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Referendum on immigration limit could threaten EU agreements and cripple economy, say Swiss businesses

Switzerland will vote this summer on a proposal from the far-right Swiss People’s party (SVP) to limit the country’s population to 10 million, a move that would threaten key agreements with the EU and, opponents say, cripple its economy.

The government said on Wednesday the referendum on the SVP’s “No to a 10 million Switzerland” initiative, which is strongly opposed by both chambers of parliament and the business and financial services community, would be held on 10 June.

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Move is a ‘backwards step’, company spokesperson says, amid concerns Kremlin is seeking more state control via messaging apps such as Max

Russia has attempted to “fully block” WhatsApp in an attempt to push users towards its own state-sponsored communications app, Max, a spokesperson for the Meta-owned company has said.

The company did not reveal more detail on what extent the attempt succeeded or what action was taken to try to block the app.

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Disused since the late 2000s/early 2010s. 3/4 of the existing building still stands today whilst its potential future still remains uncertain.

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Disused since the late 2000s/early 2010s. 3/4 of the existing building still stands today whilst its potential future still remains uncertain.